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Embedding Engineers in Clinical Pulmonology: Toward Earlier Clinical-Technological Integration
Manuel Casal-Guisande1,2,3, María Torres-Durán2,3,4, Alberto Fernández-Villar2,3,4,5
1Department of Design in Engineering, University of Vigo, 36208 Vigo, Spain.
Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)
|August 27, 2026
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Biomedical innovation often emerges from the interaction between clinical needs and technological expertise [...].
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